Many Ocracoke islanders who visited the passenger ferry, the Provincetown III, on Tuesday, May 5, were heartened. “I’m greatly encouraged,” noted Leslie Lanier, owner of Books to Be Red, as she noted the bicycle racks on the bow. “It’s an answer to our economic future,” said Mickey Baker, owner of Mermaid’s Folly. However, so is going […]
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The National Hurricane Center is giving the low pressure area off the South Carolina coast a 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical system — probably a sub-tropical storm — by Friday. If so, the storm will be named Ana. However, whether the storm is named or not, it’s likely to bring nasty weather […]
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AVON– Warren Gaskins Jr., 61, passed away while at home with his family onMay 5, 2015. He was born May 26, 1953, in Buxton to WarrenGaskins Sr. and the late Elizabeth Gaskins. As a Coast Guardfamily, they moved often before settling in Chesapeake, Va. Warren graduated from Deep Creek High School in 1971 and met DeniseDorsett […]
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Social media, weather websites, and television have been jammed today with speculation that a subtropical or tropical system could form in the area of the Bahamas mid-week and threaten the southeast coast with nasty weather by week’s end almost a full month before the official beginning of the hurricane season. Forecasters are looking at low […]
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U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-N.C., was the guest on the most recent edition of the Radio Hatteras interview show, “To the Point,” which was broadcast on May 3. Jones, who describes himself as an “independent Republican,” is serving his 11th term representing 22 coastal counties, including Dare, in the U.S. House of Representatives. During […]
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Although we had a lot of cloudy nights, April proved to be much better than March for stargazing and astrophotography. My two best images included M51 the Whirlpool Galaxy and 57 the Ring Nebula. M51 is one of my favorite nighttime objects. You can see there are two galaxies in the photo. They are often […]
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(Sandy Semans is a retired newspaper editor and reporter who now works as a free-lance writer. She lives in Stumpy Point. Her update on the goings-on in this session of the General Assembly will appear weekly in The Island Free Press, usually on Friday.)
There was a lot of news on the islands in April — news about public access to the seashore, our troubled inlets, and trial runs of a passenger ferry. The public can have input on all three of those issues at meetings next week — and more about that later. First, let’s talk about the […]
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